- 17-year-old Connor Bell died after being accidentally shot in the eye with an air rifle during a house party in Hampshire.
- Jack Beechy, 18, accidentally fired the weapon after mistaking the trigger for the safety catch while under the influence of alcohol.
- The air rifle had been taken from a cupboard by host Joshua Brown, contrary to his father's instructions, while the teenagers drank alcohol.
- Connor suffered an ‘unsurvivable’ hypoxic brain injury and died at Southampton General Hospital two days after the incident.
- Coroner Jason Pegg recorded a conclusion of accidental death at the Winchester inquest, citing a lack of weapons-handling skills as a contributing factor.
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